A Special Draft

A new program of the IDF Intelligence Corps and the Akim Organization for the Rights of the Disabled is facilitating the enlistment of soldiers with special needs.


Arnon Ben-Dror
IDF Spokesperson
11 August '10

The joint effort by the IDF Intelligence Corps and the National AKIM Organization for Rights of the Disabled in creating a program to enlist soldiers with special needs is growing ever stronger. The first cycle of drafting resulted in the enlistment of five disabled youth. The second, which began in July 2010, includes eight new soldiers and in the third cycle, 24 soldiers are expected to enlist through this program.

The two first enlistees of this second cycle, Rinader (24) and Reuven (24), recently completed the draft process in the army induction center. They went through all of the stages, from the first step of being photographed, to receiving their official army IDs, to having the fingerprints recorded, to being administered vaccinations, to the final step of receiving their own uniforms. Throughout the entire process, these future soldiers showed much excitement and pride.

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